yonyz Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Hi, I have one HDD and one SSD. Each has a Lion installation. I always keep one for backup in case I mess the main one (SSD) with incompatible kexts. Today, I freed space on the HDD, formatted it as FAT using Disk Utility, and then used the Windows 7 installation DVD to format it as NTFS and then installed Windows 7 on it. Now I have Windows 7 accessible and all that, but when my PC starts, it starts right with Windows. I expected the Windows 7 bootloader to overwrite Chameleon, and I was following a guide. So I downloaded a Lion Boot CD, burnt it, booted into it, and chose to boot the Lion SSD partition. It failes. Kernel panic. I tried the Lion HDD installation, and it failed too. Kernel panic as well. How did this happen, and how do I fix it? I am attaching a photo of the kernel panic, which is the same with both Lion installations. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280479-solved-cant-boot-with-lion-boot-cd-after-installing-win-7/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotirios Papakonstantinou Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 You could try booting with installtion DVD and then install Chameleon in Mac partition again (SSD). Probably the boot doesn't find a specific file (looking at the wrong place) and it causes kernel panic, or the Lion partition is no longer bootable. If you install Chameleon again it could be fixed and boot without any issues. Using Chameleon you should be able to select Windows and boot into Windows 7. It also might be that Windows 7 ovewritten the EFI partition (if the disk is formatted in GUID scheme) and installing Chameleon again will fix this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280479-solved-cant-boot-with-lion-boot-cd-after-installing-win-7/#findComment-1832766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonyz Posted July 12, 2012 Author Share Posted July 12, 2012 Thanks. I tried rBoot and it booted into OS X, and then I installed Chimera and it's fixed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280479-solved-cant-boot-with-lion-boot-cd-after-installing-win-7/#findComment-1832824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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